Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic
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#4: Vertical thiking is selective
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#5: Child creativitiy decrease 90% from age five to seven.
Creativity can be learned -> Inventing is a skill => Creative thinking is not a talent; it's a skill that can be learned
The mind create patterns out of enviroment and then recongnises and uses that patterns
Lateral thiking is generative
Vertical and lateral thiking are compplementary.
lateral thinking involves disrupting an apparent thinking sequence and arriving at the solution from another angle
"This kind of thinking is what I call lateral thinking: the ability to break out of the prison of the old ideas and develop new ones."
when it comes to lateral thinking it is crucial to delay decisions. This is because the information can continually react and progress, thus leaving free space for new ideas to arise.
#6: Butterfly mind : flits from idea to idea
The vertical thinking drives forward the ideas that have been previously generated by the lateral thinking. You don't dig a second hole while the existing one deepens. The lateral thinking is applied, to search elsewhere to dig a hole
LT is an attitude and a habit of mind
Brain is work by patterns